Orienting Australia: response by David Walker

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Orienting Australia: David Walker’s Anxious Nation in the historiographies of Australia and Asia

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1 David Walker, Anxious Nation; Australia and the Rise of Asia 1850–1939 (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1999); Geoffrey Blainey, All for Australia (Sydney: Methuen Haynes, 1984).

2 David Walker and Li Yao, with Karen Walker, Happy Together: Bridging the Australia–China Divide (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2022), 230; John Ingelson and David Walker, ‘The Impact of Asia’, in Under New Heavens, Cultural Transmission and the Making of Australia, ed. Neville Meaney (Melbourne: Heinemann Educational Group, 1989), 287–324; David Walker, Julia Horne, and Adrian Vickers, eds., Australian Perceptions of Asia, Australian Cultural History no. 9 (Kensington, NSW: University of New South Wales, 1990).

3 David Walker, Not Dark Yet: a Personal History (Sydney: Giramondo, 2011), 123–56; Walker et al., Happy Together, 138.

4 Louis Esson wrote five articles for The Lone Hand on India, Japan and China between July and December 1908; Vance Palmer had a long-standing interest in foreign affairs including in Asia, as apparent in his weekly column in the Advocate from November 1919 to October 1920 and later in regular columns in the ABC Weekly.

5 Frank Billé, ‘Introduction’, in Yellow Perils: China Narratives in the Contemporary World, ed. Frank Billé and Sören Urbansky (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2018), 1–34. See also David Walker, ‘Day of Judgement: Australia and the Rise of Asia’, in Yellow Perils, 60–83.

6 David Walker, ‘Facing East: Asia in Australian Literature’, in The Routledge Companion to Australian Literature, ed. Jessica Gildersleeve (New York: Routledge, 2021), 215–24; see also David Walker, ‘When the Twain Meet: The Australian Novelist in Asia’, in The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel, ed. David Carter (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023), 288–302.

7 T.R.J. Roydhouse [‘Rata’], The Coloured Conquest (Sydney: New South Wales Bookstall Company, 1904). For serialisations, see for example ‘The Coloured Conquest’ in Albury Banner and Wodonga Express, from 19 August 1904, 7, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/100590783; Cootamundra Herald, from 13 August 1904, 3, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/143897709; Clarence and Richmond Examiner, from 13 August 1904, 6, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/61408621.

8 Walker, Anxious Nation, 106–8, 82.

9 David Walker, ‘The Time has Come; Histories of Asia Literacy’ in Asia Literate Schooling in the Asian Century, ed. Christine Halse (New York: Routledge, 2015), 29–43. For trade commissioners see: James Cotton, ‘E.T. Sheaf, Australian Trade Commissioner in the East, 1922–25’, History Australia 15, no 2 (2018): 271–88, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14490854.2018.1439250; and James Cotton, ‘We are Nearer the East than the Other States’: Frederic Jones of Queensland, the First Official from Australia in Shanghai’, Queensland Review 27, no. 1 (2020): 7–8, DOI:10.1017/qre.2020.3.

10 Walker, Anxious Nation, 195–209; William Farmer Whyte, The Awakening Giant: Travels and Reflections in the East in 1923 (Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2022); Gavan Souter, ‘Whyte, William Farmer (1877–1958)’, in Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 12, ed. John Ritchie (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1990), 480–81.

11 David Walker, Stranded Nation: White Australia in an Asian Region (Crawley, WA: University of Western Australia Publishing, 2019).

12 Walker, Anxious Nation, 185–87; Walker, Stranded Nation, 191–214.

13 Walker, Anxious Nation, 13–35.

14 Walker, Anxious Nation, 210–26; Walker, Stranded Nation, 163–194.

15 Walker, Stranded Nation, 297–325.

16 Ibid., 326–79, 380–434.

17 Ibid., 229–30, 250–55 and 444–45.

18 Louise C. Johnson, Tanja Luckins, and David Walker, The Story of Australia: A New History of People and Place (London: Routledge, 2022); Giselle Byrnes, ‘Review of The Story of Australia: A New History of People and Place’, Australian Historical Studies 53, no. 2 (2022): 351–53, https://doi.org/10.1080/1031461X.2022.2048437.

19 Walker, Stranded Nation, 16–30.

20 Asian Australian Studies Research Network (AASRN), https://aasrn.wordpress.com/, accessed 2 December 2023.

21 David Walker, ‘Know Thy Neighbour: Save the Date, 7 July 1937’, Griffith Review 48 (2015): 194–201, https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/ielapa.198408008373045; David Walker, ‘Significant Other: Anxieties about Australia’s Asian future’, Australian Foreign Affairs 5 (2019): 5–27, https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.216092272497932.

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David Walker

David Walker is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He was the inaugural BHP Chair of Australian Studies at Peking University, Beijing from 2013–16. He is Emeritus Professor at Deakin University and Honorary Professorial Fellow at the Asia Institute, University of Melbourne.